George Wallis Field was emeritus professor, German, Victoria
College, University of Toronto. He was born 5 March 1914 in Cobourg,
Ontario, Canada and passed away on December 18, 2002. He had earned
his M.A. and PhD.degrees at the University of Toronto. He edited
volumes of Theodor Fontane and Heinrich Heine in the MACMILLAN’S
Modern Language Texts series. He was the author of a number of articles
on Schiller, Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse in such periodicals as
Monatshefte, Queen’s Quarterly, The German
Quarterly, University of Toronto Quarterly and German
Life and Letters. He is the author of Hermann Hesse.
New York, Twayne, 1970, Hermann Hesse : Kommentar zu Sämlichen
Werken. Stuttgart, Heinz, 1977, 19792, A Literary
History of German in the Nineteenth Century: 1830 - 1890. London,
Ernest Benn and New York, Barnes and Noble,1975. Professor Field
visited Hermann Hesse at his home in Montagnola in 1957. A Festschrift
was published in 1980 entitled The First World War in German
Narrative Prose : Essays in Honour of George Wallis Field. It
was edited by Charles N. Genno and Heinz Weltzel and published by
the University of Toronto Press.